| Show BIG WAR TALK IN BASEBALL WORLD American Association Threat Threatens ens to Start Trouble With the Major Leagues BIG FELLOWS PULL STRING OLDER ORGANIZATIONS ORGANIZATIONS HAVE TOO MUCH CONTROL Chicago Ost 26 The national base baseball baseball ball bait family is likely to have a big quarrel quarrel rel rd on Its hands this winter as the tho American association the biggest of ot the minor leagues is up in arms anns and threatening to withdraw from the time ra rational lt rational agreement The club club owners o ners of that league say they are deriving g no nl benefits from the alliance and In fat bit are tied hand and foot by being con connected 5 with organized baseball Chicago will be most m st vitally Inter Interested Interested interested ested in the scrap If it pomes jOIl othes es oil off for forit forIt forit it is the plan of the a to put puta a ball team Into grounds on the North Side M I E Cantillon owner onner o ner of the Minne apolis franchise of the American asso ao elation was outspoken yesterday In Iii his denunciation of the condition which he claims pin his league down doun to mere serfdom Have No Protection We Ye are under protection now which Protect said Mr Ir With the present conditions It Is ab absolutely absolutely absolutely Impossible ible for a club In in our league to know where It stands In re regard regard gard to the makeup of a team until the major league magnates are ready rood tn to hand us U their discard players I for Jor Jorone forone forone one think we would be a lot better off if i we cut away from this agreement and went out and hustled for ourselves Then we could get to together together together gether some Rome ball ban clubs independent of other leagues and other owners Half the players In our league langue are art really owned by major league clubs club and nobody knows when the tile string will be pulled and a team broken up by the recall of those players en are farmed out to our clubs and immediately want the same salaries in a minor league that they the received In the tile big leagues s sIt It Is Impossible to meet those demands of course and when we e are compelled to reduce their th Ir pay pa to minor league proportions the men naturally dissatisfied and very often dont give ghe the teams their best efforts Then again the patrons of the American association cities dont lJ mt like f the Idea of getting discarded players player all ati the time One Vote In Belonging to the National Association Association tion of Minor League clubs do dous dous us any good for we have one vote in III A class D league hits has ha just justas as much power as the American asso association elation clation when it comes time to vote ote on important affairs and there is no 40 chance to correct the present evils The association Is foolish If f it pull pullout pullout pullout out and I fully expect it will be iun 1 next season Independent of the nation national al agreement There is no doubt that the tIme leading lights In organized baseball expect some move on the part of at the association a atlon tion toward pulling away from room the he fold President Johnson of ot the American League one of the members of the na Ha national national commission was seeking to find out yesterday where the tile dissatisfied minor league magnates magnate stand A break In the ranks Is looked for arid atU m inn of Q the belligerents are arc nr be being beIng being ing contemplated Chicago Looks Inviting More than once the tIme association club owners have been on the point of rf try to trying tryIng ing to break into Chicago with a club but they seem to be more In earnest rnest about it this time than ever before If the disruption comes the St Paul or Milwaukee franchise will be he trans tralis transferred erred to Chicago A park on Fuller Fuler Fullerton Fulerton ton avenue west of Lincoln park Jar was s figured on at one time and probably the same site s e would be selected this time Just how much of a fuss the as K la lations withdrawal from front organized l Late lan fe ball would cause can only be C It would make the association an outlaw league of course and mu e a big bigger bl bigger ger one omme than has ba existed l at any an time yet The air would reek for a Urn with stories of contract jumping nd lod outlawry Chicago always has inviting to the American association magnates and It looks as though that league is now flow ready to cut away from front organized ball and enter this territory |
